We Are Running in 'Degraded Mode'
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Reminder: You can listen to audio versions of this newsletter thanks to Curio. Here is my recent piece on Facebook's Vast Wasteland. And here's the recent one on the Great Resignation.
Quick Fun Thing: I created a Twitter bot that will tweet out links to pieces I'm reading after I've finished reading them. You can follow it here. I just started it up yesterday so there's not much up yet. That will change starting today.
In two weeks, the book I co-wrote with my partner, Anne Helen comes out. Broadly, the gist of is that it’s not really about we work, but we work. We argue that knowledge workers have been presented with a rare opportunity to do away with a lot of the performative, vestigial elements of our careers that exhaust us/burn us out/create toxic power imbalances and make us miserable. The book is a case for de-centering one’s job as the primary force and sense of meaning in one’s life.
